I often find that couples feel like they can improve things by telling their partner what isn’t working for them in their relationship or by giving them “constructive feedback”. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe in being transparent and communicating honestly with your partner. However, I don’t know about you but I find myself [...]
Often when we’ve been hurt in the past or if we’ve experienced rejection we become insecure, we worry, and we self-reject. Next time you find yourself thinking, “oh he probably won’t want to go out with me anyway!” or “what am I thinking she is too good of a person to want to date me” [...]
Do you ever have the feeling like you are going, going, going – having to do a million things at work and in your personal life? I can imagine that sometimes you wish there were more hours in the day to get everything done!
Well sometimes we can get so caught up in giving to others, [...]
Often when we feel stuck it is as if we are frozen, can’t move; yet at the same time our mind is racing at high speed. We have the sense that we can think ourselves out of our current situation or out of the current conflict. The brain as beautiful and powerful as it is [...]
Earlier today I sent out my Valentine’s newsletter to everyone in my community – a few hundred people. Less than 5 minutes after I hit the send button, a friend responded and in a loving way pointed out several spelling mistakes in my e-mail
I immediately noticed a pit in my stomach, my face flushing, and [...]
The other day on a tele-seminar with my friend Kathlyn Hendricks we were talking about commitment and how important commitment is in attracting and living in authentic, loving, intimate relationship
Kathlyn shared, often people are afraid to make a commitment because in our culture we are confronted with Result Commitments, which are commitments that we have [...]
The first of February is here and with it Valentine’s month. Chocolate candy hearts, flowers, Hallmark card sentiments in many store are the obvious commercial signs that remind us of the month of love.
Having grown up in Switzerland, where Valentine’s Day wasn’t as popular when I was I child, I’ve come to enjoy the sharing [...]
Have you ever noticed making a decision and shortly afterwards regretting the decision. Or have you been in the situation where you decide to go to an event, for example, with your partner or date, and when you got there felt annoyed. Maybe you and your partner or date even had an argument on the [...]
Albert Einstein once said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
I don’t think he meant this to be a powerful piece of relationship advice, however, this does apply to relationship conflict as well.
Have you ever noticed when you and your partner are caught in a [...]
Have you ever noticed that when you feel really close to your partner or you have just spent a wonderful time together, suddenly out of the blue you are entangled in a fight. Or you just got home from a fun and exciting first date with someone you really like. A few moments after the [...]
